Some academics argue it should have been part of regular funding programs, or more focused.
A full month before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research launched a $55 million emergency funding competition to help the scientific community learn all it could about the novel coronavirus. Many Canadian researchers dropped everything to focus their research efforts on the new threat as society – and its universities – went into lockdown. Read more in University Affairs.